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<view>

view

describes the visual context of some part of a screen play in terms of what the spectator sees, generally independent of any dialogue.

Module dramaDRTECDROTH

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.performed @perf

Classes and content

Member of
model.stageLike
May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

gaiji

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

nets

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

cmc

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Note

A view is a particular form of stage direction.

Examples

<view>
  <name>Max</name> joins his daughter
at the window.<hi>Rain</hi> sprays his
face--</view>
<view>
  <camera>Max's POV</camera> He sees occasional
windows open, and just across from his apartment
house, a<hi>man</hi> opens the front door of
a brownstone--</view>

<div type="shot">
  <view>BBC World symbol</view>
  <sp>
    <speaker>Voice Over</speaker>
    <p>Monty Python's Flying Circus tonight comes to you live
from the Grillomat Snack Bar, Paignton.</p>
  </sp>
</div>
<div type="shot">
  <view>Interior of a nasty snack bar. Customers around, preferably
real people. Linkman sitting at one of the plastic tables.</view>
  <sp>
    <speaker>Linkman</speaker>
    <p>Hello to you live from the Grillomat Snack Bar.</p>
  </sp>
</div>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
  </content>